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Verso: Official letter. Approximately 14 lines are preserved. Dating: No earlier than 1021 CE, since al-Ḥākim was dead at the time of writing. Possibly dating …
…..والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد نبيه وسلامه على اله الائمة الطاهرين
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Verso: Four (?) interesting accounts in Arabic script, one mentioning "wāṣil al-ḍamān". Dated: Jumādā II 513 AH, which is September 1119 CE. (Information from Goitein's …
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Recto: A passage from an Arabic treatise on love and lovers (ʿishq, ʿāshiq, maʿshūq). Verso: Scattered Arabic text, possibly list or accounts. Needs further examination.
No Scholarship Records
One side: Draft of the beginning of a letter from a wretched prisoner in "the dungeon" (al-muṭbaq). In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly poetry and not a letter. …
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Several fragments of a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. Refers to 'al-Segula' and a court case; having enclosed additional letters; refers to the addressee as חמדת לבינו …
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Letter addressed to the judge R. Yeshuʿa in Fustat. The sender's name may be legible: [...] al-[Iskan?]darānī b. Ibrāhīm. The sender asks the addressee "to …
Fragment of a query seeking a responsum, addressed to Avraham Maimonides (Nagid) regarding an unmarried man living with a female slave. Avraham Maimonides served as …
Ketubba, beautifully illuminated, from Cairo, dated 16 April 1821 CE (14 Nisan 5581 AM) for (Benyamīn) Ḥayy Dayyān b. David Dayyān and Mazal Ṭov bt. …
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Accounts in the hand of ʿArūs b. Yosef. In a neater hand than usual. Both recto and verso are X-ed out. Verso: mentions two shipments …
Marriage document. Lower part, probably of a ketubah, written by a typical 13th century hand. Some of the dowry list is preserved. Signed by […] …
Letter from Shelomo Cesana & Company to Karo y Frances & Company. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 9 Nisan 5568, which is 6 April 1808 CE.
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic detailing income for the "Treasury of Silk Looms" in Alexandria, a branch of the state monopoly administration. Dated Shawwal 1239 AH which …
Letter from Abū l-Ḥasan b. ʿAṭiyya to his 'brother and father' Wāfī b. Ḥasan and Avraham b. Ṣedaqa. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: Likely Mamluk-era. Dealing in …
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Letter fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic. Possibly in the hand of Yefet b. Menashshe.
Medical treatise in Arabic script. Pinholes at the margin ~4mm apart.
Marriage contract. Location: Fustat. Dated: Sunday, 20 Sivan 1609 Seleucid, which is 1298 CE. The bride agrees to live wherever (in Egypt) her husband chooses, …
Bifolio of private accounts. Mentions Saʿīd, Faḍʾil, ṣāhib al-rahn(?). Needs examination.
Synagogue accounts. Dating: 18th or 19th century. Probably headed Seder Balaq rather than Seder Kalla (as the Baker/Polliack catalog has it). List of names and …
Fragment of a legal document. Settlement of a dispute. Mentions Sunday, a weekly payment of 4 dirhams, and "we have forgiven each other." (Information in …
Newly treated and encapsulated, must be examined
Legal document. In Arabic script. Fragmentary (only the upper left corner is preserved). A portion of a date and several names are mentioned, including one …
Letter fragment. In Hebrew. Late.
Alms list (probably), fragmentary. Names include Sutayt, Abū l-ʿAlā, the wife of the ger, Mūsā, Abū Naṣr, Umm Khulayf, the acquaintance of the astrologer (munajjim) …
Letter(s) of appeal for charity. Likely drafts. In Arabic script. The one on recto is addressed to Abū Manṣūr and the one on verso is …
Receipt.
Account fragment in Arabic with figures expressed in eastern Arabic numerals. Based on the paleography the dating may be estimated as 16th- early 19th-century. The …
Hebrew poem of praises and blessings. Possibly a panegyric for a scholar or communal leader.
Small fragment from a letter in Judaeo-Arabic. The name Ṣadoq ha-Levi is mentioned in the margin.
Probably prognostications. In Arabic script. Each side begins "idhā...." Verso ends "wa-llāhu aʿlam." The content is difficult to read but refers to winds, storms, ships, …
Letter. In Hebrew. Eliyya b. Elyaqim, in Damietta, writes to Moshe b. Yehuda, in Alexandria. The writer signs only his first name on this letter, …
Legal deed written by Halfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi (dating: 1100–38). The context is unclear. A house is mentioned and 6 legal deeds, 4 of which …
Recto: Release written by Ḥalfon b. Menashshe in Fustat. Using the standard formulae, a woman named Mawlāt releases her husband, Abū l-ʿAlā, from all accusations …
Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mainly asking for letters from the addressee. 8 lines of the main text are preserved and 4 perpendicular lines in the …
A court decree made in the last decade of the month of Iyyar in 1543 (1232 in the Julian calendar), banning the use of synagogue …
Legal record (#32) in a court register/pinqas from a beit din in Cairo (on f. 4v of T-S K22.27). In Hebrew. Location: Cairo. Dated 16 …
Late list of names mentioning Rayyis ʿUbayd in the main heading and Lake/Buḥayrat מסלך(?). Rather than a specific placename this may just be a generic …
Legal document. In Judaeo-Arabic. Dating: 19 [...] 5585 AM (1824/25 CE). Stating the amount of money to be paid to al-Khwāja Eliyyahu Lanyado.
Bifolio containing accounts in Arabic script and Greek/Coptic numerals. There are also Hebrew jottings at 180 degrees, probably a secondary use. Many names mentioned, e.g. …
Legal contract in Judaeo-Persian. Location: Hormshīr (Ahwāz). Dated: Shevat 1332 Seleucid (1020 CE). Signed by ʿAzarya b. Avraham b. ʿAmmār and Saʿdān b. Daniel b. …
It was thus before us witnesses, whose signatures are written below this record: In Hormshīr [Ahwāz] town, which [is] among th…
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Petition in Arabic script concerning a governor, a bishop and monasteries. In the formal third-person address, the writer apologizes for sending the request in writing …
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Historical or literary narrative in Arabic script. Needs examination.
Literary jottings, probably. In Arabic script. One word in the margins is in Hebrew script.
Recto: Letter from Abraham Sagis (סאגיש) in Safed to an individual in Egypt who had previously studied with the sage Moses di Trani in Safed. …
Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Late. Many food, spice, and preservative items are listed on the recto: beans, saffron, cherries, honey, wax, ḥalūmī cheese, כשכבל cheese– possibly …
Bill of divorce. Husband: Riḍā b. [...]. Wife: Ẓarīfa bt. Malik(?).
Lease of an apartment of the Qodesh ca. 1180. Abu'l-Bayan, one of the prominent parnasim of this period, leases an apartment, which is in a …
Al-Shaykh Abūʾl-Faḍl al-Parnās b. R. Aaron ha-Levi, of blessed memory, rented from al-Shaykh
Abūʾl-Bayān al-Jābī b. Elazar ha-Levi, of bl…
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Bifolio of accounts, mentioning quantities of dirhams and names such as Ibrahim al-Kohen and Abū l-Ḥasan. Very crude hand. (Information in part from CUDL.)
Tax receipt, in Arabic script. Needs examination. Dated:first quarter of the 11th century.